Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosol Using Spaceborne Observations
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Atmospheric Remote Sensing".
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Interests: meteorology; climate; atmospheric physics; air quality
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Interests: cloud remote sensing; aerosol remote sensing; trace gas remote sensing; snow remote sensing; radiative transfer
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Interests: satellite remote sensing; aerosol; clouds; climate air quality
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Atmospheric aerosol plays an important role in atmospheric physics, chemistry, and dynamics. It is one of the main factors influencing global climate change. It is known that atmospheric aerosol leads to cooling effects as compared to warming due to an increase of carbon dioxide and snow/ice darkening due to global increase of dust and black carbon load in snow and ice surfaces. It is expected that the introduction of strict measures with respect to the aerosol emissions will lead both to a decrease of mortality due to cleaner air and to a further increase of global warming.
The monitoring atmospheric aerosol and its properties using ground, airborne and spaceborne optical measurements is of importance for understanding local and global aerosol load and aerosol transport between various parts of our planet (, e.g., the transport of dust from Africa to Europe and other parts of the planet including ocean).
This Special Issue is aimed at the presentation of recent results aimed at the development of various observation systems for monitoring aerosol properties using spectral, polarimetric, dual-view and multi-angular optical instruments. The papers aimed at the description of new instrumentation for aerosol observation, and the description of modern aerosol retrieval techniques are especially welcome. Other topics to be considered are concerned with the retrieval of properties of thick aerosol plumes, simultaneous aerosol and cloud retrievals, and urban aerosol monitoring using spaceborne and ground-based optical instrumentation including lidar systems, which are of particular importance for aerosol monitoring during the night, when backscattered solar light spectral intensity and polarization cannot be used to retrieve aerosol properties.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present recent developments in ground-based and satellite remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol, such as:
- Spaceborne aerosol retrievals over bright surfaces;
- Multi-angular polarimetry applied for aerosol remote sensing;
- Lidar remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol;
- Retrievals of aerosol properties using ground-based passive optical observations;
- Simultaneous aerosol and cloud retrieval schemes.
Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky
Prof. Dr. Jan Cermak
Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuw
Dr. Virginie Capelle
Guest EditorS
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Keywords
- aerosol remote sensing
- light scattering and absorption
- radiative transfer
- inverse theory
- cloud screening
- aerosol remote sensing over snow
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